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The European Theatre Lab is an international group of artists, scholars and scientists from theatres and research institutions. Together with 7 theatres, this work is guided by a distinguished Advisory Board of leading experts from the arts and technology. After two years of applied research, the results in the fields of app-based virtual & augmented reality, 3D sound, auralisation, psycho-acoustic effects and voice recognition surtitling will be introduced during Ars Electronica 2018. Together with other experts from the field of digital theatre, current projects are presented and discussed. Finally, the audience is invited to exchange ideas about possible future applications of the digital in theatre.
Moderation: Heidi Wiley (DE), Speakers: Jan Linders (DE), Chris Ziegler (DE), Gerhard Funk (AT), Mikael Fock (DK), Philipp Ehmann (AT), Joris Weijdom (NL), Jonathan Thonon (BE)
SCHEDULE
| 11:00 – 11:15 | Heidi Wiley (DE) | European Theatre LAB – Introducing a digital strategy for theater institutions |
| 11:15 – 11:30 | Jan Linders (DE) Chris Ziegler (DE) |
Stage Your City – Designing a digital theater dramaturgy |
| 11:30 – 11:45 | Jonathan Thonon (BE) | Idiomatic – Developing an automized speech-to-text real time sur-titling translation technology |
| 11:50 – 12:00 | Gerhard Funk (AT) | Cooperative Aesthetics |
| 12:00 – 12:10 | Mikael Fock (DK) | The 4D Box – Calling for new narratives where reality merges with virtuality |
| 12:10 – 12:20 | Philipp Ehmann (AT) | The world is your engine – Game dramaturgies in theater |
| 12:20 – 12:30 | Joris Weijdom (NL) | Why mixed-reality experiences need theater and performance |
| 12:30 – 13:00 | Discussion | |
Credits:
The project “European Theatre Lab: Drama Goes Digital” is a consortium of the European Theatre Convention (ETC) and 7 public theatres:
- Théâtre de Liège, Belgium
- Croatian National Theatre Zagreb, Croatia
- CDN Nancy Lorraine La Manufacture, France
- Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Germany
- Kote Marjanishvili State Theatre Tbilisi, Georgia
- Det Norske Teatret Oslo, Norway
- Teatrul National “Marin Sorescu” Craiova, Romani
The “European Theatre Lab: Drama goes digital” has been developed with the support of the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.
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Bios:
Heidi Wiley (DE)
is Managing Director of the European Theatre Convention (ETC) since 2009. She developed international cooperation formats that bring the concerns of theaters throughout Europe into social discourses. In dialogue with the EU Commission, she represents the ETC in working groups on “Audience development via digital means” and “Participatory governance of cultural heritage”. After Edinburgh, Ohio and Paris, she now lives and works in Berlin.
Jan Linders (DE)
studied German and Philosophy in Hamburg and Baltimore, USA. From 2009 to 2011 he was acting director at the Theater Heidelberg, before he was engaged at the Staatstheater Karlsruhe in 2011. He has been Chief Dramaturge there since 2016. He was also on the Board of the Dramaturgical Society from 2003-2013 and became Vice President of ETC in 2013. Jan Linders is a member of the German Academy of Performing Arts.
Chris Ziegler (DE)
is a media artist, director, architect and scenographer. He has been working together with different artists at the ZKM since the 1990s and has received awards for some interactive works. Since 2000 he produces his own stage works. In the European Theatre lab (ETL) he has been working with various European theaters on the EU research project “Drama goes Digital” since 2016. He currently teaches “Interactive Media” at Arizona State University, Tempe (USA).
Jonathan Thonon (BE)
Jonathan Thonon is project manager at Théâtre de Liège (Belgium), director of IMPACT (International Meeting in Performing Arts and Creative Technologies) a project that aims to build bridges between Art, Science and Technology. He is an associate researcher at Université de Liège, working on Digital Arts, Cinema & Contemporary Arts and exhibited cinema.
Gerhard Funk (AT)
studied Mathematics and Art Education and received his Ph.D. in Theoretical Computer Science. As a highschool teacher he taught art education, mathematics and informatics. In parallel he worked as assistant and researcher at RISC Linz. In 1993 he transferred to the University of Art Linz, where he since 2004 is a full professor at the Institute of Media and the head of the bachelor’s degree program “Time-based and Interactive Media”.
Mikael Fock (DK)
is currently CEO and Artistic Director of THE CULTUREYARD as well as the Producer of the Arts and Technology at CLICK FESTIVAL. Art, science and technology development are an important drive for him, who since 2000 has been working constantly with new media technologies and hybrid arts. At this year’s festival, he presents the 4D Box as a workshop and residence space with a Mixed Reality Live Stage program.
Philipp Ehmann (AT)
is a theater maker from Austria who holds a M.A. in Theater Praxis of the University of Exeter. He is the Co-founder of Play:Vienna. His notable works are Libertalia 2.0 (2018) & Press Staat for Revolution (2016, Schauspielhaus Graz), Götter der Dämmerung (2018, Ensemble Modern), Hotel Europe (2017, Green Rooms Hotel London) and Rozznjogd (2014, Volkstheater Wien). He won the Dorothea Neff award in 2017/18 and the Kirchschläger award in 2016.
Joris Weijdom (NL)
researches and designs mixed-reality experiences focusing on interdisciplinary creative processes and performativity. He founded the Media and Performance Laboratory (MAPLAB), enabling from 2012-2015 practice-led artistic research on the intersection of performance, media and technology. Currently he researches creative processes in collaborative mixed reality environments (CMRE) and teaches at the HKU University of the Arts Utrecht.
